[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers

Fri Dec 28 23:45:47 CET 2012

2012/12/28 Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk>:
+> On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:15:16 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>
+>> It's not
+>> only Mageia, trying Debian, Ubuntu, openSuse, Mint and a few others
+>> including Mageia, only 2 of them were able to get it to run longer
+>> than from one boot to the next.
+>
+>   On the same netbook I also installed Ubuntu 12.01 and Mint 13 KDE.
+>
+> With both of them, they operated the Broadcom WiFi perfectly 'out of
+> the box' - no fuss, no mention of 'looking for...', it just worked.
+
+Yes. And with MAG1 and MAG2 and Mdv 2010.x it operated out of the box
+here, no fuss, no mention of looking for. it just worked. Same netbook
+worked with openSuse but never with network manager nor with Gnome.
+And now it does not work with MGA3 and (after all this testing MGA3)
+it does not work anymore with MGA2. using the same software as a
+couple of weeks ago. So I get the impression that something else was
+changed, not just the version of the os.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+